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Franz Schubert

Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor, D 571 (Schubert)

The Piano Sonata in F minor 571, was composed by Franz Schubert in July 1817. The sonata was first published long after the composer's death in 1888 by Breitkopf & Härtel. The sonata is incomplete,

I. Allegro moderato#

F minor. Fragment (breaks off at the end of the development, implying a recapitulation in the subdominant, B minor)

(II. D. 604)#

A major. In sonata form without development. Unusually, the second subject group is in the subdominant key of D major.

(IV. Allegro, D. 570)#

F minor. Fragment (breaks off at the end of the development)

Sources#

  • Tirimo, Martino. Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas. Vienna: Wiener Urtext Edition, 1997.
    • Recording of Malcolm Bilson playing the first movement in his own completion
Composer
Franz Schubert